KYIV, April 24 – Grain harvest in Ukraine in the 2018/19 agricultural year (July-June) could grow by 3% compared with the previous year, to 61.85 million tons, according to projections of the Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA).

BERLIN, April 24 - Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny have not yet started talks on the future of transit of Russian gas via Ukraine; there is only consultation on this subject, Gazprom's Deputy Chairman Alexander Medvedev told journalists in Berlin.

KYIV, April 24 – A recent raid by the SBU security service of the aircraft engine maker Motor Sich was an attempt to seize the assets by rival business interests, Viacheslav Bohuslayev, Motor Sich president and the largest shareholder, said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 24 – Ukrainian Sea Port Authority has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Kernel, a large Ukrainian agrarian group, to boost cargo flow at the Chornomorsk maritime merchandise port (Odessa region).

KIEV, April 24 - Luhansk Energy Association LLC on April 25, 2017 under a decision of Ukraine' Energy and Coal Industry and state-run enterprise Energomarket has halted supplies of electricity to the separatist-controlled areas of Luhansk region, Director General of Luhansk Energy Association Volodymyr Hrytsai said on Luhansk regional TV on Sunday.

KIEV, April 24 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has sent a petition to enforce collection of UAH 172 billion from Russia's Gazprom to the State Enforcement Service of Ukraine.

KIEV, April 24 – Privat Group, the former owner of which is businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, in a report on profit and losses and other revenue for 2016 admitted spending on reserves for depreciation of credits and advance payments to clients in the amount of UAH 144.713 billion, according to a draft audit report of Ernst & Young (E&Y) posted by creative producer of the journalist investigations department of 1+1 TV channel and Groshi television program Oleksandr Dubynsky on his Facebook page.

KIEV, April 24 – SCM Group owner Rinat Akhmetov remained the richest Ukrainian in 2016 according to Focus magazine, with fortune of $2.2 billion.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine's Ihor Kolomoisky is among four prominent businessmen facing a $380 million worldwide freezing order that ties up property including his luxury French villa, months after he settled a multi-billion-pound claim in an unrelated case in British courts.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko on behalf of Ukraine signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday.